Example sentences of "to have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials .
2 The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials .
3 It was especially welcomed by the poor Islanders who were cleared from their crofts during the infamous Highland Clearances , and at the time of the potato blight many were said to have subsisted on it .
4 Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray …
5 Eamon Wilson , The Beeches , Portadown , is alleged to have conspired with a person or persons unknown to make a threat to Sean McIvor , making him fear that if it were carried out he would be killed .
6 By the end of September an anti-Singh faction within the Janata Dal appeared to have coalesced around the Prime Minister 's arch-rival Chandra Shekhar .
7 There are people here who believe they have an argument with Muller and his colleagues , an assembly of protest who claim to have formed on October 7 for the specific purpose of political disruption .
8 It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere .
9 A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard .
10 Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’
11 They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time .
12 The vugs , fractures and intercrystalline pores , on the other hand , are thought to have formed in response to late leaching ( Clark 1980a ) .
13 After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins .
14 Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon .
15 Generally speaking the sin-offering seems to have referred to offences against God , and the guilt-offering to social offences .
16 The leftist 17 November group was reported to have claimed responsibility , and to have referred to Turkish policy towards Cyprus .
17 A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances .
18 To have gathered from the air a live tradition
19 Crowds of 100 to 400 people were reported to have gathered in various parts of the city , chanting anti-EPRDF , anti-US and pro-Ethiopian unity slogans .
20 With a capital investment fund , and yet here you are trying to have to borrow to be able to manage next year .
21 " Various sectors of the city 's population , including students " were reported by official radio to have marched towards the " building of the former US dens of espionage " chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans .
22 To have to sit in an office all day playing the same records — all of which are awful — over and over and over again — well , it 's not funny , is it ?
23 This was March — it was cold , windy , and altogether an unpleasant time of the year to have to sit in a car for long periods observing people 's activities , and how they lived their lives .
24 And it looks like I 'm going to have to attend to that jockey girl . ’
25 The Turkish Prime Minister is reported to have commented on the deaths by saying : ‘ Those killed were not real journalists .
26 According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony .
27 Klein is not the only psychoanalyst to have commented upon the place of material objects in play .
28 At other times in the past , temperatures appear to have fluctuated by as much as 10 degrees centigrade over a couple of decades .
29 Gloucester was to have the right to appoint his own deputy , an office he is said to have given to Sir John Huddleston .
30 l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society .
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